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Run, Spot, Run : The Ethics of Keeping Pets /
A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as powerful: guilt. When we see our cats gazi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A note on language
- Thinking about spot
- 1. awash with pets
- 2. neighborhood menagerie
- 3. who are pets?
- 4. why pets?
- 5. tainted love
- Living with spot
- 6. family constellations
- 7. why not
- 8. sleeping together
- 9. stroke me
- 10. talk talk
- 11. animal bling
- 12. butt of the joke
- 13. planting seeds of empathy
- 14. pets and our health
- 15. cat scratch fever
- 16. pets and their health
- 17. feeding frenzy
- 18. who should we feed to our pets?
- 19. your dog is fat!
- 20. poop
- 21. animals bite back
- 22. pet and planet
- Worrying about spot
- 23. turn me loose
- 24. a boredom epidemic
- 25. don't you want me?
- 26. cruelty, abuse, neglect
- 27. a hidden world of hurt
- 28. quiz: cruel practices
- 29. the strange world of animal hoarding
- 30. the links
- 31. heavy petting
- 32. licensed to kill
- 33. rage against the dying
- 34. fatal plus
- 35. eunuchs and virgins
- 36. breeding bad
- 37. the shelter industry
- 38. cradle to grave
- 39. a living industry
- 40. protect the harvest
- 41. rent-a- pet
- 42. the biggest loser: exotic pets
- Caring for spot
- 43. what do pets need?
- 44. enriching animals' lives
- 45. which animals should be pets?
- 46. offering better protection
- 47. speaking for spot
- 48. so, is pet keeping ethical?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index